England selectors will turn to Lancashire left-arm spinner Simon Kerrigan in
the absence of other spinning options.

Simon Kerrigan is expected to be named in the England squad for the second Test against India at Lord’s this week less than a year after his bruising debut at the hands of Australia.

Kerrigan has spent this week working with the England coaches at Trent Bridge, bowling on the outfield during the lunch and tea intervals, and appears to have done enough to convince head coach Peter Moores to restore him to the Test set-up.

Barring an unexpected change of heart, Kerrigan will be added to the 13 named by the selectors for the first Test when they announce the squad for Lord’s at the end of play today. He will play for Lancashire today in a four-day match against Nottinghamshire, but will pull out of the game early to join the England squad at Lord’s.

Kerrigan has taken 28 championship wickets this summer for Lancashire, but his form has been patchy and England will have to weigh up the risk of exposing him against Indian batsmen who are the best in the world at playing spin.

Moeen Ali has taken two wickets in the Indian second innings but Alastair Cook again looked reluctant to bowl him. Kerrigan is in contention partly because a dearth of spin bowling options has left England with few alternatives.

Monty Panesar was dropped by Essex last week and Kent’s off-spinner Adam Riley is not ready for Test cricket. The fact Kerrigan is a left-armer who will spin the ball away from India’s right handers works in his favour.

His biggest task is to prove to England he has recovered from his Test debut when he bowled just eight overs conceding 53 runs as Shane Watson launched a brutal onslaught.

Kerrigan’s Lancashire team-mate James Anderson was the hero of the day with the highest Test innings by an England No 11, scoring 81 in a 198-run stand with Joe Root — the best for the last wicket in Test history.

Root made an unbeaten 154 as England snuffed out India’s hopes of winning the Test. Instead, India ended the fourth day 167 for three, a lead of 128 runs and a draw is looming unless England can strike quickly this morning.

“To build a partnership like that with Joe was a brilliant feeling and I enjoyed every minute of it,” Anderson said. “We started by just batting for a bit to see where we got to. We knew we had a job to do to try and eat into the time in the game and chip away at their lead.”

Anderson said his record score as a No 11 will be the proudest of all his statistical achievements. He “never” thought he would score a fifty in his career let alone go close to a century. "Lunch came at the wrong time for me and I started thinking about it [a century]," he said. "People in the dressing room were talking about it but not to me but I could hear them.”

David Collier is set to stand down as chief executive of the England and Wales Cricket Board after 10 years in the job. Collier is expected to retire from his role with Richard Gould, the chief executive of Surrey, the leading candidate to replace him. Collier is expected to stay on until the end of the season.

Sachitra Senanayake, the Sri Lanka off spinner, has been banned from bowling after being called for a suspect action in the one-day series against England.